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One of my favorite board games as a kid was Battleship. Flip up your side of the board, place your ships as strategically as you can and hope for the best in a guessing game of “B12, hit or miss”. In an app store full of multiplayer games, I wondered what kind of Battleship-style games I could come across, and I stumbled upon a sweet action-packed game called “World of Warships Blitz.”

One game I will always hold dear to my heart is the original “Mario Kart” from the SNES and N64 platforms. Even if you never played the original, I'm sure you must be familiar with “Mario Kart” in general. Seeing as I don't have any working retro hardware anymore, I always wondered what was out there in the mobile market. Well, did I stumble upon a gem.

As someone who loves boxing movies such as the “Rocky” movies, “The Fighter,” “Million Dollar Baby” and more, I certainly became interested in watching a few boxing matches on TV as I grew up. I also love boxing games, and for what it's worth, I had a lot of fun with “Wii Boxing” years ago when that was a thing. So I thought to myself, what is out there on mobile?

I'm a huge fan of city-building games, specifically “Sim City.” I'd spend hours building different cities and watching the economy either flourish in some of them or tank into the depths of bankruptcy as residents riot outside of City Hall. My favorite “Sim City” game was “Sim City 2000” - and a small company just came out with a game that is basically a copy of that old-school game, but on the mobile platform.

Well, it certainly has been cold out lately. So cold in fact, I just haven’t felt any type of need to go outside, other than to run into my car as fast as I can and get to where I need to be. It’s also that time of year, where everyone is sick, and you try to avoid each other like the plague.

This has sure been an interesting football season to say the least. Injuries, blowout games, and even overtime thrillers. When football isn't on TV though, what are you doing to keep the time going until the next game?

Did you ever wonder what Ewok life was like, before unwelcomed Rebels and Stormtroopers arrived on their planet? Well, now is your chance. In this last addition to my built-up list of “Star Wars” games, we build a little village for some cute teddy bear aliens.

There’s been an awakening. Can you feel it? It must be the next Star Wars movie “The Last Jedi” brewing on the horizon. It’s time to get excited for it. What better way to boost that excitement than by offering you a weekly array of Star Wars games for you to mingle with. Hopefully, these will hold you over until the featured film hits the big screen.